{"id":745,"date":"2018-11-14T11:26:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T11:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/?p=745"},"modified":"2020-04-08T17:53:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T16:53:28","slug":"adding-another-string-to-our-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/2018\/11\/14\/adding-another-string-to-our-bow\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding another string to our bow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>The Ed&#8217;s office was an exceptionally busy hub \u00a0last week.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>We hosted an advanced lawn care course for our Ed&#8217;s Operators. <\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>We came up with with the idea for the course in our last group training session back in September. \u00a0A number of Operators thought it would be really useful for their businesses. \u00a0Although mowing is our core service, we love to support our customers to have the best lawns that they possibly can and looking after lawns properly is a big part of this.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" data-public-id=\"lawn-mowing-by-dave\/lawn-mowing-by-dave.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-post-745 wp-image-543\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/eds-garden-business-franchise\/images\/w_1632,h_1224,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1508320582\/lawn-mowing-by-dave\/lawn-mowing-by-dave.jpg?_i=AA\" alt=\"\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto,q_auto\" data-version=\"1508320582\" data-seo=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/eds-garden-business-franchise\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1508320582\/lawn-mowing-by-dave\/lawn-mowing-by-dave.jpg?_i=AA 1632w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/eds-garden-business-franchise\/images\/w_300,h_225,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1508320582\/lawn-mowing-by-dave\/lawn-mowing-by-dave.jpg?_i=AA 300w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/eds-garden-business-franchise\/images\/w_1024,h_768,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1508320582\/lawn-mowing-by-dave\/lawn-mowing-by-dave.jpg?_i=AA 1024w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/eds-garden-business-franchise\/images\/w_768,h_576,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1508320582\/lawn-mowing-by-dave\/lawn-mowing-by-dave.jpg?_i=AA 768w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/eds-garden-business-franchise\/images\/w_1536,h_1152,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1508320582\/lawn-mowing-by-dave\/lawn-mowing-by-dave.jpg?_i=AA 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark, our Ed&#8217;s Operator in Bournemouth, volunteered to take the idea away. Mark then did some research to establish what kind of course would fit the bill, found a good provider and passed the details on to the Ed&#8217;s Office to make it all happen. Steve, our Ed&#8217;s Operator in Hersham helped out with some of the hosting arrangements. We did the rest in the office and&#8230;hey presto, we had a course. \u00a0More than twenty Ed&#8217;s Operators signed up for the course so we ran the course over two days. \u00a0We had Operators with 10+ years with Ed&#8217;s and others, who are less than a year with us. \u00a0The feedback from our Operators was overwhelmingly positive, with everyone was saying how much they were looking forward to turning the course into something practical to add to their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great having our Operators visit the Ed&#8217;s Office. \u00a0Wellington gets \u00a0very excited about seeing them too&#8230; especially at lunch time!<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"1512\" height=\"2016\" data-public-id=\"egbf_wordpress_assets\/IMG_2183-e1542187960671\/IMG_2183-e1542187960671.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-post-745 wp-image-755\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/eds-garden-business-franchise\/images\/w_1512,h_2016,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1768083191\/egbf_wordpress_assets\/IMG_2183-e1542187960671\/IMG_2183-e1542187960671.jpg?_i=AA\" alt=\"\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto,q_auto\" data-version=\"1768083191\" data-seo=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/eds-garden-business-franchise\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1768083191\/egbf_wordpress_assets\/IMG_2183-e1542187960671\/IMG_2183-e1542187960671.jpg?_i=AA 1512w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/eds-garden-business-franchise\/images\/w_225,h_300,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1768083191\/egbf_wordpress_assets\/IMG_2183-e1542187960671\/IMG_2183-e1542187960671.jpg?_i=AA 225w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/eds-garden-business-franchise\/images\/w_768,h_1024,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1768083191\/egbf_wordpress_assets\/IMG_2183-e1542187960671\/IMG_2183-e1542187960671.jpg?_i=AA 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1512px) 100vw, 1512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><strong> At Ed&#8217;s we are extremely committed to great training. We believe that the best training is focused on adding tangible value to our Operator&#8217;s businesses. Our mantra is to keep training real and interesting. \u00a0It has to be well worth our busy Operators taking time out of their businesses for.<\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ed&#8217;s office was an exceptionally busy hub \u00a0last week.\u00a0We hosted an advanced lawn care course for our Ed&#8217;s Operators. We came up with with the idea for the course in our last group training session back in September. \u00a0A number of Operators thought it would be really useful for their businesses. \u00a0Although mowing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-choosing-a-franchise","category-operators","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edsgardenbusinessfranchise.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}